NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6947, 22 February 1884, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[FROM OCR OWN Co-iIKSPONDENT.] COROMANJDEL, Thursday. The 8.8. Coromandel is detained here by bad weather. She will leave for Auckland tomorrow morning at three o'clock. |PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Thursday. Tiio.:iollowiiig'tenders for the Kopuaranga contract (formation .only) of. the WellingtonNapier .Railway were received :—Acoepted : H. Downes, Auckland, £31,425. Declined : : D. Henderson, Porirua, £31,989 ; v D. Glendinning, Napier, £32,990; Alexander and Macfarlane, AVanganui, £34,211 ; J. Lookie, Wellington, £45,864. CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday. Last : evening, while Mr. i\ Dignao, of the Bank of New Zealand,' Ashbarton, was ■riding down Beach-road, he was run into by a man named Boody, under the influence of liquor. While falling, Mr. Dignan was badly kicked in the head by his own horse.: Dr. Roasattendedhim, but his injuries; were too serious to allow him to give evidence against Boody when the case was called'on. ■ ,

: As several elections of school committees were invalid, the Board of Education will appoint fresh elections 'in : such cases for Monday, March 24. Mr. Montgomery has called attention to the fact that the Government has ■ allooated for; school buildings £50,000 of the £70,000. voted last session. North Canterbury has only had £9430. The amount of the account audit inconnection with the North Canterbury Education Board £46,250.

■ Last year at the December pupil teachers' !examination, -of. 161:-who sent their names 160 attended. Of 51 examined for the first year 50 passed, of 40 forthe second year 37 passed, of 34 for the third year 31 passed. : At a meeting of the Exhibition Committee it was stated that the Exhibition had resulted in a credit balance of £165.

The Sydenham . licensing election resulted in.four out of the five temperance candidates being returned, ,viz., T.. Brown, J. Forrester, G. Booth, and J. A: Rankin. The only rion-temperance man .waa Longdon, . last on the list.

The civil case, brought by..'William Hartwig, one of the rescued sailors, against the captain • and owners of the Sarah H.Hant, was heard at Lyttelton to-day. The Beach nonsuited the plaintiff with costs. - ' The weather continues fine, and the harvest is in full swing. An excellent yield is expected. The following will represent Canterbury in the return match with Tasmania :—Barnes, Buchanan, Chapman, Dudnoy, Dunlop, Hariri an, Mathiai, Millton, Pocock, Ross, and Wilding.; . It is a much weaker batting team than, last one. Watson, Powke, and Longden, who all played well in the . first match, could not get away.

DUNEDIN, Thursday. A Hundred mile bicycle race took place today from Mosgiol to . Lawrence and: back. It was won by O'Keefe in 11 hours 25 minutes:. Only three entered andonly two finished.

Mr. Bracken to the Minister, of Lands to : day'at the request of a deputationifaaking if he could order the re-consider-ation of the ;deciaion of the Land Board in. the . Waikouaiti cases of dummy ism. He received reply.that : noninterference could: be made.

Toe Rev. Mr.' Wills, East Taieri, haa been presented with a 1 purse of 100 sovereigns and an address, on the completion of the thirtieth year' of his ministry there. 'A' Elizabeth?, Jane Keen, , aged nina years, was killed while playing . with railway trucks: at■■■ the goodsstation; on Tuesday night. BLUFF,. Thursday. The shooting team entertained the Eapiegle's team at dinner last night. ■ Tbe Campbelltown Cricket Club played an eleven from the Espiegle to-day, and nude 106 in one innings against tbe' Kspiegle's 21 first and 41 second innings.The Espiegle sails to-morrow afternoon for Wellington via the West Coast Sounds.